Retail insights from the sporting goods industry – Page 185
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Sanuk, the shoe brand acquired by Deckers Outdoor Corporation last...
Sanuk, the shoe brand acquired by Deckers Outdoor Corporation last year, is opening its first company-owned store in Santa Monica, California
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Storeage, the Amsterdam-based retail design agency, will provide support to...
Storeage, the Amsterdam-based retail design agency, will provide support to Asics for the retail brand strategy for its Onitsuka Tiger brand in Europe, the Middle East and Africa. The agency has already created the brand's shop windows for spring 2013. The Retaildesign blog gave a “best” note to its booth ...
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Sport-Fachhandel, the German trade publication, reports that Blue Tomato intends...
Sport-Fachhandel, the German trade publication, reports that Blue Tomato intends to open six new stores across Europe this year. The Austrian specialty retailer of board sports gear has not named the locations except for the two new stores to be opened in Germany in Stuttgart and Hamburg. The company already ...
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Fitness Boutique, the French chain of fitness equipment stores, continues...
Fitness Boutique, the French chain of fitness equipment stores, continues to develop internationally. According to sport-guide.com, it has opened its first store in Morocco, in Casablanca. It already has two stores in Spain, one in Brussels and one in the French territory of La Réunion. It has others in France. ...
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Kelme inaugurated its first concept store in Indonesia, located in...
Kelme inaugurated its first concept store in Indonesia, located in the prestigious residential area of Tangerang, Jakarta, last April 6. The premises include two floors for offices and a showroom. It is the first store where the Spanish company has used a new interior design that it will use to present Kelme's image ...
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The first physical Joma store in Hungary has opened its...
The first physical Joma store in Hungary has opened its doors in a shopping mall at Drebecen
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The members of the Ver.Di trade union of Leipzig, where...
The members of the Ver.Di trade union of Leipzig, where Amazon Germany's most important distribution center is located, have voted with an overwhelming majority in favor of a strike, claiming that the wages paid by the retailer are too low. The issue is that Amazon Germany is not bound to ...
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Intersport Germany started up its online shop on March 18,...
Intersport Germany started up its online shop on March 18, adding an additional retail channel for its affiliated retailers. The store at http://www.intersport.de went formally live with Kim Roether and Klaus Jost, the group's joint managing directors, pushing the button and ordering outdoor jackets for themselves. The group has been working ...
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Mizuno has opened the first of a series of 50...
Mizuno has opened the first of a series of 50 running specialty stores that it wants to have in Mainland China by the end of 2015. They are expected to contribute annual revenues of 1.5 billion yen (€188.1m-$241.3m). Located in Shanghai, the first such store features running stations for training ...
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Runners Point, the German retail chain for athletic footwear and apparel,...
Runners Point, the German retail chain for athletic footwear and apparel, has launched a new retail format called Runners Point World of Running. It has been implemented in a new flagship store of 500 square meters opened this week in the Thier Galerie, a shopping mall in Dortmund. Described as Europe's ...
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Ignoring the shakeup in the Austrian sporting goods retail landscape...
Ignoring the shakeup in the Austrian sporting goods retail landscape caused by Sport Eybl & Sports Experts' crisis, one of its competitors, Hervis Sports, has announced ambitious plans for expansion inside and outside Austria. The chain, a subsidiary of the Spar food chain, plans to open 10 new doors in ...
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Décathlon has reportedly signed a deal with a major Chinese...
Décathlon has reportedly signed a deal with a major Chinese real estate company, China Vanke, to help develop its presence in second- and third-tier cities in the country. The French retailer already has 57 stores in China, and they are mostly located in the larger urban areas, measuring between 4,000 ...
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Avenue Way is opening the first Li-Ning store in the...
Avenue Way is opening the first Li-Ning store in the Middle East, measuring 250 m², on Kish Island in Iran
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The concept store of Le Coq Sportif in Barcelona has...
The concept store of Le Coq Sportif in Barcelona has received a prize because of its contribution to the renovation of the retail community in the city's ancient Barrio Gótico
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Through a German partner, Dimensione Danza has opened its first...
Through a German partner, Dimensione Danza has opened its first German concept shop on Berlin's Kurfürstendamm
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Foot Locker opened its 100th store in France at the...
Foot Locker opened its 100th store in France at the end of last year, according to sport-guide.com. It is located in a recently renovated shopping center at Claye Souilly, anchored by Carrefour, that also accommodates one of the ten JD stores in France. Foot Locker had only 83 stores in ...
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The board of directors of Foot Locker, which has been...
The board of directors of Foot Locker, which has been faring well financially, has approved a $220 million investment program for the current year. That is far more than the $163 million spent last year. The money will be invested in various fields of expansion such as the development and roll-out of ...
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Reportedly, Décathlon wants to freeze wages in Spain for the...
Reportedly, Décathlon wants to freeze wages in Spain for the next three years, in view of the difficult economic situation in the country, but the company declines to comment. According to another report in CMD, Spanish sporting goods retailers suffered the biggest sales decline in 15 years last year, but some ...
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Intersport Germany adjusted its final figures on the group's 2012...
Intersport Germany adjusted its final figures on the group's 2012 retail sales, which we reported in December on a preliminary basis. In the end, the affiliated retailers increased their sales by 2.2 percent to €2.76 billion after VAT. According to Klaus Jost, joint president of the group, the last two ...
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According to Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, the leading German daily newspaper,...
According to Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, the leading German daily newspaper, Andrew Jennings, chief executive of Karstadt, the big chain of department and sporting goods stores, has informed the company's staff about the generally challenging situation in retailing ? which has prompted Karstadt's competitors to reduce retail prices significantly to counter the ...